The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments 3 Volumes

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Heavy set: no international orders. Three Volume Set in slipcases, complete. Patterned paper over boards with cream cloth bindings. Clean, square, and unmarked set that appears little handled. 3975pp. Notes and index in third volume. 1001 decorative illustrations by Valenti Angelo. Slipcases are also Very Good, mildly sunned along back sides, but sturdy and attractive. Heritage Club newsletter included. A very nice set! Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. Bookseller Inventory #

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Title: The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night;...
Publisher: Heritage Press
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good

Book Description BURTON. Book Condition: Very Good. Light to moderate shelf wear. Complete. No apparent underlining/highlighting. Black cloth with gilt titles and decoration, except for the Supplemental Nights version which is black cloth with argent/silver decoration. 9 volumes total of an incomplete set: volume one, volumes 3 through 7, volumes 9 and 10, plus the second volume of the Supplemental Nights. Titles rubbed/dulled in spots. Exact edition is unknown despite reference to the Penzer bibliography; no illustrations as described, no "catch words.". Bookseller Inventory # 54815

Book Description The Heritage Press, New York, 1934. Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Good+. No Jacket. Valenti Angelo (illustrator). NOT Ex-library, NO Writing, tight clean binding, wear to points, and light wear to spine ends, to first two volumes, third volume only slight wear, darkening to spines and a few marks, volume one has small split on spine seam in rear, cream spines with writing, decorated boards in black and orange , flowers and people, large figure of woman in center, 3975 pages combined, condition G+ to VG, extra postage, international postage also more, especailly for priority. Bookseller Inventory # 7841

Book Description Scheherazade's web: the 1001 nights & comparative literature, J. Rossís bibliography 10 & 11; cf. Penzer, pp. 126-132 (other Burton club editions). The so-called "manuscript edition" of Richard Burton's celebrated translation of Alf Laylah Wa Laylah, commonly known in English as the Arabian nights. These Arabic tales, cherished in Europe since the early 18th century, are often erotic in content, and in Burton's unexpurgated translation they outraged Victorian England. Burton included numerous footnotes and a scholarly apparatus, offering a vivid picture of Arabian life (including sexual customs), which set his translation apart from earlier English renderings. The present edition (limited to 99 sets, the present being copy no. 49) includes a manuscript leaf from a text by Burton. In the present copy this is a book review by Burton, of a French translation of Johannis de Capua's Latin translation of a Hebrew translation of the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit frame story written several centuries before the Arabian nights. The notes at the head show that it was used as printerís copy.The title-page of volume one uses the correct main title, The book of the thousand nights and a night, but confusingly mixes it with part of the subtitle of the Supplemental nights: "to the book of the thousand one nights with notes anthropological and explanatory". To add further confusion it says "volume three", though the content is that of volume one. The volume number is clearly a printer's error, apparently corrected early in the press run.Some minor browning to the endpapers, those of the first volume partly detached and with a small pieces torn off, the binding has some very minor wear to the hinges, and a few headbands have been carefully repaired. A fine set. Bookseller Inventory # J3MA10E7L7XG